Hey don't put all of us in one bucket. On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> PC gamers are the worst cause they followed some redit guide to improve > the network card performance. Just burn their house down and be done with it > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2025, 8:44 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Yes, move closer to the server. Either that or they can figure out how >> to break physics. It takes time to get from one point to another. >> >> "Bunch of IP" is probably the 15 other players in his 16 player game. If >> it's AWS they're probably masquerading it for obvious security reasons. >> >> On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Move closer to the server? >>> >>> >>> >>> I assume you don’t mean if the server is in Virginia, tell the customer >>> to move to Virginia? >>> >>> >>> >>> FWIW, I torched the customer’s traffic trying to determine where the >>> server was, and saw a bunch of IP addresses communicating with his gaming >>> PC. I took the one with the most traffic, and ping time to it was around >>> 10 ms, but rDNS was blahblahblah.awsglobalaccelerator.com I think. So >>> AWS routes the traffic across a private network supposedly to improve >>> performance? >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman >>> *Sent:* Saturday, February 1, 2025 4:39 PM >>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] ping time reported in game >>> >>> >>> >>> There's no one ping to rule them all, but generally it's the latency of >>> a game packet from gamer to host and back. It could be a dedicated server >>> or a peer to peer game. The latter is more common (cheap bastards). >>> >>> >>> >>> The #1 thing you can do to reduce latency is move closer to the server. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Since they're playing with someone else, I'm betting it has something to >>> do with turnaround time with the gamer they're playing with? >>> >>> >>> >>> bp >>> >>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>> >>> On 2/1/2025 12:31 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone here speak gamer? >>> >>> >>> >>> What is the ping time displayed in some games? Someone will tell me >>> it’s like 200 ms, but speedtest.net reports 15, and a command line ping >>> reports 13 min, 15 avg, 20 max. >>> >>> >>> >>> I don’t know what to do with the numbers they quote from the game, they >>> don’t correlate to anything I can measure. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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